1. What’s the title of Thomas Friedman’s book? Why was it given this name?
2. What world trends do words “hot, flat and crowded” refer to?
3. What happens “when flat meets crowded”? What consequence of this process is described by T.F.?
4. How much, according to the UN estimates, will the world population increase between now and 2020? How can you account for this estimateddramaticincrease? Will the growth rate remain the same or slow down after 2020?
5. Read the dates and numbers: July 20th 1953, 2.681 bn, 0.7 (ounces), 20,000 (metric tons), 9.2 bn, 60,000 (megawatts), 500 (megawatts). Watch the video again and say what they refer to?
T. Friedman and his book
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America
Video Hot, Flat, and Crowded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtXS0WyqN8s
Questions to the video
1. What’s the title of Thomas Friedman’s book? Why was it given this name?
2. What world trends do words “hot, flat and crowded” refer to?
3. What happens “when flat meets crowded”? What consequence of this process is described by T.F.?
4. How much, according to the UN estimates, will the world population increase between now and 2020? How can you account for this estimated dramatic increase? Will the growth rate remain the same or slow down after 2020?
5. Read the dates and numbers: July 20th 1953, 2.681 bn, 0.7 (ounces), 20,000 (metric tons), 9.2 bn, 60,000 (megawatts), 500 (megawatts). Watch the video again and say what they refer to?
T. Friedman and his book
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew AmericaActive vocabulary unit 10
Describing a graph exercise
Graphs showing the latest trends in Russia's economy (unemployment, house prices, inflation rates)
Vocabulary 10-3 excercise
Translation from Russian exercise
How to solve the nation's unemployment problemTED talks - Longevity, how to live to be 100+ (edited)
UNIT 10: Supplementary READING